MPs to summon Twitter bosses over troll threats

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Jenny Booth

Last updated at 3:24PM, July 30 2013

Twitter bosses are likely to face questions from MPs after a series of
sexually explicit and violent messages were sent to female politicians and a
feminist campaigner.

John Whittingdale, the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee,
predicted that the committee would call executives from the micro-blogging
site when they examine the issues surrounding harmful online content in the
autumn.

“I would have thought it very possible that the committee might want, in the
course of our inquiry, to talk to Twitter,” he said.

Last night Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, and Caroline Criado
Perez, a journalist,